Donald Trump’s yes-men at the Consumer Product Safety Commission are withdrawing a series of proposed safety rules, including an appendage-saving safety mandate for table saws. This will mean thousands more fingers lost per year.

  • Sickos [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    Ok the thing with the table saws is actually a lobbying effort from the company that owns the patent, and they have sued other means of doing the same thing into nonexistence.

  • Arahnya [he/him, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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    Meanwhile, the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in its abrupt firing of three of the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s five members — clearing the way for a deregulatory free-for-all when it comes to consumers’ safety.

    Opening up my brand new acme drill and it shatters in my hands